Cut Your Own Wood Flooring

If that happens that would result in a pretty big gap.

Cut your own wood flooring.

Planks can be cut with a hand saw circular saw or flooring cutter and most laminate flooring comes in planks that simply snap together with a tongue and groove system making it quick and relatively trouble free. Make sure when you make the mark to cut off the wall side not the room side. That piece is a keeper. Adjust the fence and cutter height using a scrap piece of material adjust the cutter height and fence position until you have it set up correctly to run your flooring.

Measure the face width of the existing flooring add the width of its tongue then set the table saw s fence that same distance away from the blade. I left the bark on. This removes the groove which you ll re create in the next step. Make sure to always cut the wall end of the wood so that you do not cut off the groove that fits to the tongue.

Set up the shaper or router table with a tongue and groove cutter. In a past life i had thought of the idea of buying solid oak plywood cutting it into strips and using it as inexpensive solid oak flooring and i was told that i was an idiot and carpet was chosen instead a far more expensive option when i had already exhausted my budget. Don t try and cut from the top down straight through. Now cut the new boards to width by running the tongue side against the fence.

You can either pile those pieces off to the side and return them to the mill later to cut the bark off or deal with the bark as part of the milling process. We ll cut it off when we turn the planks into flooring. Scc cut all the 8 ft planks into 4 ft pieces then cut about 6 of those in half again to 2 ft sections. Put the first board of the new row in place.

How to lay down your own inexpensive wood floor and make it look gorgeous. Run all of the flooring through the machine on one of the long sides and one of the ends. Start by cutting a line all the way down where you want your cut to go. Find a piece and lay it alongside the hole and flip it over.

A circular saw is sort of like a table saw just with the portability of a reciprocating saw. One of the most popular uses for cutting wood floor planks with this saw is cutting the planks lengthwise also known as a rip cut. Yes i did the sanding hence no photos of that step. Put the end against a 3 4 inch spacer and seat the edge snugly against its neighbor.

I sanded each board one by one top ends and knocked the sharp edges off the corners for a worn farmhouse feel. Cut the last length to fit leaving a 3 4 inch expansion gap and nail it in place. Get your groove back. This makes it great for basic cuts or for a more skilled installer good for basic cuts for wood flooring as well.

The saw will wander all over. The second cut will produce a piece that has two good faces but bark on two edges. That gives you a guide of sorts.